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Energy Alert
18 Nov 2022 Offshore wind: What you need to know when applying for an offshore electricity infrastructure licence in Australia
Key considerations for offshore electricity infrastructure licence applications, the application process and applicable fees and levies.
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Employment Alert
28 Oct 2022 The genie is out of the bottle: Proposed reforms to the Fair Work Act
What you need to know The Bill makes significant changes to arrangements for enterprise bargaining which risk further shifting the focus away from both…
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Class Actions Update
20 Jun 2022 Back to the future: Funded class actions are not managed investment schemes
15 Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones has indicated that following the LCM Funding decision he sees "no reason the whole…
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Dubai Dispute Resolutions Update
29 Oct 2021 A New Era for Dubai Arbitrations: Dubai Decree No. 34 of 2021
Authors: Cameron Cuffe, Partner; Dyfan Owen, Partner; Tammam Kaissi; Stephen Rigby, Associate; Jenny Zhang, Associate; Nour Makarem, Trainee Solicitor
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IP @ Ashurst update | australia
12 Aug 2021 The evolution of innovation: Artificial Intelligence can be an "inventor" of a patentable invention says a Federal Court Judge
Background Dr Stephen Thaler applied for a patent and listed an AI system named DABUS (the device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified sentience) as…
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LIFE SCIENCES UPDATE
28 Jul 2021 High time for medicinal cannabis cultivators and manufacturers: Australian Government simplifies licensing regime
Authors: Anita Cade, Partner; Stevie Gough, Senior Associate; and Stephen Klimis, Lawyer
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LIFE SCIENCES UPDATE - AUSTRALIA
12 Apr 2021 Changes on the horizon for regulation of medicinal cannabis in Australia?
Authors: Anita Cade, Partner; Eoin Martyn, Senior Associate; and Stephen Klimis, Lawyer
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construction update
11 Mar 2021 UK Building Safety Update
Other interested parties, for example, Building Safety Minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, have suggested cladding manufacturers should take some of the…
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corporate crime and investigations
25 Feb 2021 ASIC's New Immunity Policy
Authors: Rani John, Partner and Stephen Speirs, Senior Associate
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quickguides | dispute resolution (UK)
19 Jan 2021 Jurisdiction Clauses
This is what happened in Anthony Snookes -v- Iani-King (GB) Ltd: Stephen Little -v- Iani-King (GB) Ltd [2006] EWHC 289 (QB) where proceedings commenced in the…
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ASIC RG 256 Update
23 Dec 2020 ASIC commences consultation on proposed updates to RG 256 Consumer Remediation
Authors: Chris Baker, Head of Managed Services Risk Advisory; Gwladys Ngo Tedga , Director Risk Advisory; Ian Bolster, Partner Dispute Resolution, Stephen…
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Financial Services Update
26 Oct 2020 New requirements that come into effect in March and October 2021 require issuers of CFDs to modify their products
Authors: Jonathan Gordon, Partner; Corey McHattan, Partner and Stephen Tudjman, Consultant
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EMPLOYMENT UPDATE
01 Oct 2020 Further changes to Safe Management Measures in the workplace
The Singapore Government has announced that more employees will be allowed back to the workplace from 28 September 2020. Accordingly, the Tripartite Partners…
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LIFE SCIENCES UPDATE
01 Oct 2020 Advertising during COVID? Beware the medicines watchdog
Authors: Nina Fitzgerald, Partner; Stevie Gough, Senior Associate; Ted Talas, Lawyer; and Stephen Klimis, Lawyer
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Financial Services Update | Australia
08 Sep 2020 Governance, risk management and consumer outcomes will be a common focus for APRA and ASIC over the next four years
Authors: Corey McHattan, Partner; Philip Hardy, Partner; and Stephen Tudjman, Consultant The services provided by the Ashurst Risk Advisory practice do not…
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Corporate crime and investigations
02 Sep 2020 Is corporate exposure to criminal liability about to increase?
Authors: Ian Bolster, Partner; Stephen Speirs, Senior Associate; and Andrew Westcott, Senior Expertise Lawyer
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Employment update - Singapore
31 Aug 2020 Latest employment support measures from the Singapore Government
Employment law, Singapore employment law, Retrenchment, COVID-19, Jobs Support Scheme, Jobs Growth Initiative, Fair Retrenchment Framework, Tripartite…
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Financial Services Update
27 Aug 2020 Are your cybersecurity systems adequate to comply with your s.912A obligations?
Authors: Jonathan Gordon, Partner; Corey McHattan, Partner; and Stephen Tudjman, Consultant
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Employment update
26 Aug 2020 Expanded anti-discrimination protections in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Government recently passed into law significant amendments to existing anti-discrimination legislation . These amendments will impact a large…
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Media Update
30 Jun 2020 The High Court's spotlight on a tort of privacy in Smethurst v Commissioner of Police
Authors: Robert Todd, Partner; Jason Strachan, Counsel; Nick Perkins, Senior Associate; and Stephen Klimis, Lawyer End notes 1 Ashurst acted for Ms…
